Clinical Identification of the Vertebral Level at Which the Lumbar Sympathetic Ganglia Aggregate |
An, Ji Won
(Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine)
Koh, Jae Chul (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine) Sun, Jong Min (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine) Park, Ju Yeon (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine) Choi, Jong Bum (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine) Shin, Myung Ju (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine) Lee, Youn Woo (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine) |
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